Soap and brush holder for buckets.



SOAP AND BRUSH HOLDER FOR BUGKETS APPLICATION TILED MAR. 23. 1906.

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HORACE FALK N EUMEYER AND FRANK ERDMAN NEUMEYER, OF MACUNGIE,PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 12, 1907.

Application filed March 23,1906. $er1alN0. 307,746.

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Be it known that HORACE FALK NEU- MEYER and FRANK ERDMAN NEUMEYER, citi-Zens of the United States, residing at Macungie, in the county of Lehighand State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Soap and BrushHolder for Buckets, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a soap and brush holder for buckets.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple andcomparatively inexpensive device adapted to be readily applied to eithera wooden or metallic bucket and capable of supporting a wetscrubbing-brush, so

that the drip will fall into the bucket, and of holding the wet soap toavoid placing the same on the floor, woodwork, &c., and thereby preventthe white marks which are left by the soap when the same is placed onsuch surfaces.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in theconstruction. and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafterfully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointedout in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that variouschanges in the form, proportion, size, and minor details of constructionwithin the scope of the claims may be resorted to without departing fromthe spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a brush and soapholder constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is avertical sectional view showing the same applied to a bucket.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawlngs.

1. designates a rectangular soap-dish. constructed of suitable sheetmetal and provided at the upper edges of its end Walls 2 and front wall3 with beads 4 and 5, which receive a rectangular supportingloop 6. Thesupporting-loop 6, which is constructed of wire and which strengthensthe soap-dish, extends from opposite sides otthe device, as clearlyshown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

Each side of the device consists of a pair of outer and inn erclamping-jaws 7 and 8 and an upwardly-extending resilient arm 9. Thejaws, which are connected at the top, converge downwardly and areadapted to be spread to enable them to be placed over the upper edge ofa bucket 10 and engage with the inner and outer faces of the sidethereof. The jaws are connected at the top, the top connecting portionbeing coiled beyond the upper end of the jaw 8 to form a circular loopor coil 11, which provides a spring for causing the jaws to clamp thebucket with the desired force. is bent between the upper ends of thejaws to form a substantially V-shaped bend 13 and a substantiallyU-shaped bend 14. The V-shaped bend 13 is located contiguous to the jaw8, and the other bend 14 is arranged adjacent to the jaw 7. These bendsare adapted to be readily engaged with the upper edge of the bucket, andthey assist in maintaining the device firmly in contact with suchreceptacle.

The resilient arms 9 are connectedwith the lower ends of the jaws 8 byshort connecting portions or bends 15, and they are connected togetherat their upper ends by a top portion'16, from the center of whichdepends a curved jaw 17, formed by twisting the terminals of the wireand adapted to receive and clamp a brush between it and the bucket, asillustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings. Theupwardly-extending arms 9, the top connecting portion 10, and thedepending jaw 17 constitute a brush supporting and clamping member,which may be omitted from the device when it is desired to provide asoap-holder only. A soap-holder of this character may be convenientlyused in various places, as will be readily understood, the jaws beingadapted to engage the side of a bath-tub or sink.

The device, with the exception of the soapdish, is constructed of asingle piece of Wire, the terminals of which are twisted to provide thecurved depending intermediate jaw 17. The wire is then bent to form thearms 9 and the top connecting portion 16, which is straight and whichforms, with the said arms, an approximately rectangular back portion.The wire is then bent to form the jaws and the top-connecting portions12, which space the upper ends of the jaws sufliciently to receive theedge of the part to which the device is applied. The wire is thenfinally bent to form the horizontally U-shaped soap-dish supporting andstrengthening loop.

Having thus fully described. our invention,

The top connecting portion 12 What we claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. A device of the class described comprising a soap dish, downwardlyconverging jaws arranged in pairs at opposite sides of the device, saidjaws being separable at their lower ends and connected at their upperends, the top connecting portions being coiled beyond the jaws to formsprings and being provided between the jaws with inner V-shaped bendsand outer U-shaped bends,

v the latter bends being adapted to engage the upper edge of areceptacle, and means for connecting the dish with the jaws.

2. A device of the class described, comprising inner and outerclamping-jaws arranged to engage a receptacle at the upper edge thereof,a soap-holder carried by the outer jaws, and brush-holding meansconnected With the inner jaws and arranged to support a brush within areceptacle to cause the drip to drop into the same.

3. A device of the class described, compris- .ing inner and outer jawsarranged in pairs and spaced apart, said jaws being adapted to engage areceptacle at the upper edge thereof, resilient arms carried by theinner jaws,

.ends of the inner aws, an intermediate aw operating in the spacebetween the pairs of jaws for engaging and supporting a brush, and meansfor connecting the upper end of the intermediate jaw with the upper endsof the said arms.

5. A device of the class described, comprising inner and outerclamping-jaws arranged in pairs and spaced apart, said jaws beingseparable at the bottom and connected at the top, a soap-holderconnected with the outer jaws at the lower ends thereof, resilient armsextending upwardly from the lower ends of the inner jaws, anintermediate jaw operating opposite the space between the said jaws, anda top portion connecting the upper end of the intermediate jaw with thesaid arms.

6. A device of the class described, comprising inner and outerclamping-jaws arranged in pairs, a supporting-loop extending from thelower ends of the outer jaws, a substantially rectangular back portioncarried by the inner jaws and having an intermediate depending jaw, theinner and outer jaws, the loop, and the back portion being constructedof a single piece of wire and the intermediate jaw being formed bytwisting the terminals of the wire, and a soap-holder supported by thesaid loop.

7. A device of the class described comprising inner and outerdownwardly-converging jaws, the outer jaws being provided withhorizontal extensions, top connecting portions spacing the upper ends ofthe jaws and coiled at the inner jaws and provided at the upper ends ofthe outer jaws with narrow U-shaped bends of a width less than the spacebetween the upper ends of the jaws,

HORACE FALK NEUMEYER. FRANK ERDMAN NEUMEYER.

Witnesses:

DAVID J. NAGLE, MABEL A. NONNEMAOHER.

